Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Installation Guide (5900-1510, April 2011)

Non-SCSI3 I/O fencing requirements

Supported virtual environment for non-SCSI3 fencing:

■ HP-UX Integrity Virtual Machines (IVM) Server 4.0 and 4.1

Make sure that you also meet the following requirements to configure non-SCSI3

fencing in the virtual environments that do not support SCSI-3 PR:

■ Storage Foundation Cluster File System must be configured with Cluster

attribute UseFence set to SCSI3

■ All coordination points must be CP servers

Veritas File System requirements

Complete the tasks in this section before installing Veritas File System.

Before installing Veritas File System, perform the following tasks:

■ Review the Veritas Storage Foundation Release Notes.

■ Ensure that the /opt directory exists and has write permissions for root.

■ The Veritas File System does not support OmniStorage. Do not install VxFS

without first retrieving any files archived using OmniStorage.

■ Install all the latest required HP-UX patches.

Supported HP-UX operating systems

This release of Veritas products can only be installed on a system running HP-UX

B.11.31.1009, HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2010 Operating Environments

Update Release or later on the PA-RISC or Itanium platforms.

To verify the operating system version use the swlist command as follows:

# swlist | grep HPUX11i

HPUX11i-DC-OE B.11.31.1009 HP-UX Data Center Operating Environment

JFS must be installed on your system prior to installing any Veritas software.

To verify that JFS is installed use the swlist command as follows:

# swlist -l product JFS

JFS B.11.31 Base VxFS File System 4.1 for HP-UX

System requirements

Veritas File System requirements